The National Bank of Kenya has confirmed the news that fraudsters has indeed stole Sh. 29 million in an alleged hacking incident that happened on Wednesday.
The bank has since assured their customers that their accounts has not been tampered with in any way contrary to what social media is letting on people to believe.
Here’s the official Statement by National Bank on the Attempted Fraud:
We confirm that there was an attempted fraud in normal course of business on 17th January but the Bank’s monitoring and security resources frustrated the attempt.
The amount of attempted fraud is about Kes. 29 million and we are confident we will recover most of that money.
Security are in pursuit of the fraudsters and investigations are ongoing.
Customer accounts have not been affected and the latest social media speculation on the potential loss is incorrect.
